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No Fossil Fuel-Based Generation Was Added To US Grid Last Month (arstechnica.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: In the U.S., two types of electricity generation are on the rise: natural gas and renewables. If one of those is set to make a bigger mark than the other this year, it's natural gas: in 2018, natural gas-burning capacity is expected to outpace renewable capacity for the first time in five years, according to data from the Energy Information Agency. Although natural gas additions are expected to overtake renewable energy additions in 2018, forecasts for renewable energy additions to the grid roughly match what we saw in 2017. Natural gas is overtaking renewables not because renewable energy adoption is slowing, but more because natural gas facilities are seeing a considerable boom.
In fact, barring any changes in the EIA numbers, natural gas, wind, and solar generation are the only electricity generation sources that will be added to the U.S. grid in any consequential manner in 2018. Battery, hydroelectric, and biomass facilities make up the small percentage of "other" sources that are expected to come online this year. Renewable energy also started off the year strong. According to the EIA, "in February 2018, for the first time in decades, all of the new generating capacity coming online within a month were non-fossil-fueled. Of the 475 MW of capacity that came online in February, 81 percent was wind, 16 percent was solar photovoltaic, and the remaining 3 percent was hydro and biomass."
In fact, barring any changes in the EIA numbers, natural gas, wind, and solar generation are the only electricity generation sources that will be added to the U.S. grid in any consequential manner in 2018. Battery, hydroelectric, and biomass facilities make up the small percentage of "other" sources that are expected to come online this year. Renewable energy also started off the year strong. According to the EIA, "in February 2018, for the first time in decades, all of the new generating capacity coming online within a month were non-fossil-fueled. Of the 475 MW of capacity that came online in February, 81 percent was wind, 16 percent was solar photovoltaic, and the remaining 3 percent was hydro and biomass."
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Next year, we expect you guys to start *removing* fossil fuel-based power generation.
And it will be for crypto mining.
Natural Gas is a fossil fuel. Who writes this stuff?
Battery and solar are good solutions.
I am surprised there is not more motion to add batter plants like Australia's where they were able to really level out the generation requirement and feed a lot of short demand peaks with batter plants. It sure seems to add a lot of stability and efficiency to a system.
I am surprised more houses are not getting built with solar panel roofs? How do you survive a grid outage? Have your minimum power needs meet by solar.
Grocery stores. Big roofs, lots of constant power demand for coolers. Their insurance should really be offering them discounts for installing solar with enough capacity to keep their cold goods storage running.
by ceasing our (almost all of us) constant spewage of poly petrol & other nefarious/poisonous chemicals into our atmosphere is likely the only way? cease fire stand down.. truth+mercy=justice.. see you there... that's the spirit.. in the moms we trust..
Is that where they feed fat people cookie dough (batter) and have them peddle on stationary bikes attached to generators?
Solar and wind can't guarantee power delivery.
Obama's war on Coal, especially Clean Coal, ended so all the Coal Miners should have gone back to work, and mined Coal, which is America's number one best product.
As we all know, the sun does not work, it is only shining half the day at best, and wind can't work, the air is far too small, you can't even see it. And besides, Obama was behind it, and we all know that Obama was a Kenyan and Kenya is home to Chewbacca, and Chewbacca hates America. That is why he kept us from building our nuclear waste storage site on Tattoonine. Even though nobody except a bunch of fat, welfare moms lives there.
In conclusion, this report is wrong. Trump's America is now coal and nuclear powered, and it is the biggest and best.
no deposit no return just nice clean juice. plus new ignored/overlooked hydro generator designs,, makes sense but isn't happening..
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Could you be more specific about the compounds in your blue pills and red pills? Some of us have to worry about allergies and side effects, you know.
widespread the problem is.
I'm surprised that there aren't tons of coal burning plants being built or brought back online. /s
Most of the coal burning plants around here have already been torn down, or replaced by a much smaller scale/footprint natural gas generating plants.
There is a push for solar, and wind farms, I'd like to see more emphasis on storage.
Trump will correct this oversight as soon as he is made aware of it by FOX News.
If you're adding more natural gas generation you're adding more fossil fuel generation.
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Of course, doing that means we have to let poor people freeze, because your beautiful subsidized wind turbines have run up the cost of electricity significantly, and Obama's very successful war on coal has ensured that nobody is foolish enough to spend money on baseload construction. I'm sure you're happy that Saint Musk will continue to get rich off powerwalls to mitigate damage to the grid, and that poor people will pay for it.
Go fuck yourself.
According to the EIA, "in February 2018, for the first time in decades, all of the new generating capacity coming online within a month were non-fossil-fueled. Of the 475 MW of capacity that came online in February, 81 percent was wind, 16 percent was solar photovoltaic, and the remaining 3 percent was hydro and biomass."
Look Windy, renewables are becoming less and less of your new electricity...
2015 66%
2016 62%
2017 55%
2018 36%
No wonder your CO2 will rise this year.
>"Battery, hydroelectric, and biomass facilities make up the small percentage of "other" sources "
Sorry, but "battery" is not a "source" of electricity, it is just a storage of one.
>"Of the 475 MW of capacity that came online in February, 81 percent was wind, 16 percent was solar photovoltaic, and the remaining 3 percent was hydro and biomass."
Kewl! Reduction of fossil fuel usage is great for everyone, regardless of ideology or party. Energy independence, sustainability, and long-term cost control (because it doesn't "run out") are vitally important to security, peace, and the economy. Everything else is icing on an already delicious cake :)
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Alternative facts 101
Why is it people still use the term Fossil Fuels ? This has already been proven oil is not composed of dinosaurs. There is no such thing as fossil fuels.
If ENRON had not destroyed the natural gas market in 2001, it would have become the dominant energy source before 2010. Guys like Lou Pai did irreparable damage to to US economy, pocketed hundreds of millions of dollars and then walked off without a care in the world. And now, people under 30 blame our current mess on too much regulation.
uses scare quotes for the title president.
I think you are the one out of touch with reality. Say it loud and say it proud: President Trump.
Climate modelers made a big error on their feedback calculation. The googly-eyed Monckton fellow has done the legwork to fix it. It's quite unfortunate that he's correct. It could prevent the scientists from making the correction just to save face. who could blame them? A wacky denier fixes your mistake? How do you survive such a blow to your reputation? They'll have to find a way to "discover" their mistake and issue a correction.
Neither link mentions if these numbers are only nameplate capacity or if they figure in the capacity-factor coefficient. Which is it?
Really? Has he stopped using the armed forces to protect oil supplies then?
"Free to compete on its own" would include paying for the thousands of cancer deaths it is known to cause each year. I suspect he's not actually implementing that.
We'd rather see them welding windmills and installing panels, but yeah, anger is fun, so... I hate you because you have different values! I hope you die!
The problem is that the combustion of fuels that contain carbon produces carbon dioxide. Whether those carbon fuels come from 'fossils' like coal and petroleum (and some natural gas) or non-fossils like wood and alcohol (and some natural gas) is irrelevant.
If we converted all automobiles to run on alcohol, the buildup of CO2 would still be a problem as burning alcohol produces CO2 (as does a natural gas like propane). The problem is combustion -- virtually every fuel we burn to produce energy is a carbon fuel, hence produces CO2.
Now if you converted all automobiles to burn hydrogen, you have no carbon and produce virtually no CO2; but then you have to get energy to produce enough hydrogen for the current needs.
Combustion is a dead-end technology unless you want to produce heat.
he wouldn't have killed off all the dinosaurs .
Trump will save all the miners - he will make a coal mountain art the tax payers expense.
It might be natural, but natural gas is a fossil fuel folks. Maybe we should start calling other fossil fuels natural. Btw, gravitational adiabatic compression is responsible for the earths surface warming above space aka the greenhouse effect, not greenhouse gas. Greenhouse gas theory is incorrect (bs).
Stop spreading BS. Coal is given subsidies by Trump. If it was "free to compete on it's own " it would die.